Word: handicapping
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...often play a sort of gourmet game. They walk along the corridors in the evening trying to guess who is having the roast rack of lamb, the corned beef and cabbage, or the Liederkranz cheese. It is a very easy game, but the Lalky incinerator system often provides a handicap by giving off all-pervading whiffs of old eggs and sour milk...
...Senator Warren Magnuson ) had been hurt by drinking, driving and marital problems. He was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Bill Stinson, 32, a salesman seeking office for the first time. A federal indictment for trying to influence a mail fraud case was too great a handicap for Maryland's Thomas Johnson, who was unseated by Rogers Morton, strapping younger brother of Kentucky's victorious Senator Thruston Morton...
Manhattan's Crowell-Collier Press is now persuading well-known and imaginative poets, playwrights and novelists to accept the handicap of a 798-word vocabulary and still write primers that six-year-olds can read for themselves with all the delight they have learned to expect from hearing parents read aloud at home...
...large dope rings or their equivalent. If Leary's accounts of his work may be taken at face value-- and there is every reason to suppose that they may, since they have not been in the least covert--his drug research is legitimate clinical psychology. The one, nearly fatal, handicap his research suffers is that it is unorthodox...
...successor in the White House bitingly to task for demanding that the nation give him more men of his own party in Congress. In Los Angeles, Eisenhower pointed out that during six of his eight years as President he faced a Congress controlled by the opposition-and despite that handicap had run up a "much better record and performance" than Jack Kennedy has with a 3-to-2 majority in the House and a nearly 2-to-1 edge over the Republicans in the Senate. "What does he want?" Ike demanded. "One-party government...